Prioritizing healthcare worker vaccinations on the basis of social network analysis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 893-900

  Polgreen, Philip M ^a   Tassier, Troy Leo ^a,c   Pemmaraju, Sriram Venkata ^a,b   Segre, Alberto Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; IOWA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955753110     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655466     Document Type: Article

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